Records determined by Frances Chase (née Crawford)

Slender shrub, up to 2.5 m high. Stem slender, erect, unbranched, green, terete with dense indumentum (scabrid yellow hairs with red-brown podia). Leaves alternate, paripinnately decompound; stipules paired, broadly deltoid, apex acute, brown, membranous; petiole 1 cm long, characters as for stem; rachis as for petiole; lamina lanceolate, somewhat falcate, up to 12 x 1.5 cm; pinna ovate, 8 x 2 mm, apex apiculate, base oblique, margin entire, glabrous, subsessile, tend to fold closed along rhachis. Flowers large, showy, 35 mm in diameter, borne in axillary racemes; peduncle : 15 cm, characters as for petiole; pedicel 1-2 cm long. Petals golden yellow to orange. Sepals 5, green, broadly ovate, pubescent. Stamens and stigma not well exerted. Fruit: a pod, up to 100 x 6 mm, flattened, slightly falcate, apex apiculate, clearly constricted between seeds so as to appear segmented, glabrous.

Guibourtia - Pteleopsis dry forest.-x000D- Notes: Tree to 6 m, branching very low. Slash with powder yellow streak. Bark deeply fissured, very brown. Leaves small, alternate, serrate, bright green, youong growth slightly flattened. Fruits hanging, in 3s, m

Small tree to 5 m tall; in somewhat degraded/disturbed Berlinia/Parinari woodland and thicket mosaic on sandy soils.

Evergreen tree to 6 m tall with rounded crown; bark brown, roughly fissured into small blocks; in degraded coastal forest/woodland mosaic on sandy soils, in secondary scrub. Occasional to frequent.

Dense evergreen shrub to 2 m tall; growing in thicket 4-6 m tall, in coastal thicket/woodland mosaic on sands.

Low open shrub about 50 cm tall with many branches. Whole plant hairy. Light yellow flowers. Only one plant seen.

Annual creeper, 30 cm high. Stem slender, longitudinally grooved, covered in short hair. Leaves simple, smooth margin, dull green, bean-shaped, veins running from the base. Leaf apices round, base cordate.

Low shrub to 1 m high, flowers white; in degraded coastal woodland/thicket on sands; occasional.

Scrambling shrub to 3 m tall; in dry coastal Guibourtia schliebenii thicket/forest on sands. Growing in association with Combretum sp. (Burrows & Burrows 10733).

Climber/scrambler in Dobera loranthifolia on saline flats bordering the Messalo River. Flowers bright red.

Liane to 10 m high; scattered in dry coastal Guibourtia schliebenii thicket/forest on sands.

Climber/scrambler to 2 m tall, flowers white; locally frequent in degraded woodland/thicket mosaic on coastal sands.

Tree to 6 m tall, spines absent, bark smoothish mottled grey-white and light brown, thinly peeling to a dark green underbark. In coastal woodland on sands.

Slender tree to 4 m, stem angular. Strong spines. Milky latex. Leaves trifoliate. Fruits green. Local. Berlinia woodland to low forest.

Deciduous tree to 6 m tall; bark smooth, bright green, peeling in skin-like flakes. Occasional on margins of dry coastal sand forest dominated by Guibourtia schliebenii, the understorey dominated by Memecylon spp., Warneckea spp. and Strychnos spp.

Shrub to 1 m high, sterile; in shaded understorey of coastal thicket on sands.

Rather slender tree to 6 m tall, semi-deciduous, flowers white, showy, all leaves severely eaten by insects; scattered in open woodland at base of low escarpment on outer edge of alluvial floodplain of the Rovuma River.

Tree to 4 m tall, fls white; scattered in severely degraded woodland on sandy soils.

0.5 m high; Shrub; Suffrutex; Notes: Suffrutex shrub, 0.5m high. Leaves: compound, leaflets opposite, sessile to sub-sessile, tomentose, obovate to elliptic. Inflorescence: a panicle. Flower: opposite, yellow, trumpet-shape.

Tree, 4 m high. Flowers white, 10-15mm, pea-shaped, sweet smelling, clustered, smooth. Stem, one, twisted, thick, growing upwards. Bark smooth, whitish. Fruit/seeds still green, 8mm diameter 20cm long. Long fluted (grooved) pod with sharp end, round, single, smooth. Sap: none.

Shrub; Notes: Common shrub up to 3-4 feet in height. Calyx pink, corolla white. In Pterocarpus - Burkea - Guibortia tree savanna.

Suffrutex to 350 mm high, leaves somewhat greyish when fresh; in open grassy areas on ecotone between dambo (seasonally inundated grassy pan) and woodland, in a mosaic of open coastal Brachystegia/Uapaca nitida/Parinari curatellifolia woodland and ev

Straggly shrub or small tree to 4 m tall, flowers off-white. In understorey of dry Guibourtia schliebenii/Brachystegia forest on sandy soils over conglomerates on north rim of low escarpment.